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全效学习 八年级下册英语强基专项突破练+热点冲刺组合练 时文组合训练(三)
Buzz, buzz… Summer is here. So are mosquitoes. Do you want to keep away from those awful insects? Iceland may be a perfect place for you. This country is free of mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes live in most parts of the world. Most of the mosquitoes come in summer and they. breed(交配繁殖) quickly on hot days. Mother mosquitoes lay their eggs in water or near it. If the weather is warm enough, the eggs can hatch (孵化)in three days. After hatching, the baby mosquitoes feed on small plants in water.
But the climate in Iceland is quite hard for mosquitoes to live in. Iceland is near the North Pole. The temperature there is low all year round. The weather in Iceland also changes very fast. The temperature can go up suddenly in winter and then go down quickly. Imagine a mosquito egg is waiting below the ice during the winter. One day, it gets warmer and the ice melts(融化). The egg hatches. But soon, the temperature goes down. Ice covers the water again. The poor little mosquito dies! The only mosquito in Iceland now is in a laboratory. It came from another country. In the 1980s, a scientist caught it in an airplane.
Besides having no mosquitoes, Iceland also has a lot of interesting facts:
★Iceland is home to about 130 volcanoes (火山). The country is called the "land of ice and fire".
★Iceland looks like the moon because of its volcanoes. In the 1960s, American astronauts did training there before they went to the moon.
★There are no subways or trains in Iceland.
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